Boll vs Bole - What's the difference?
boll | bole |
The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
* 1853 ,
An old Scots dry measure, equal to six bushels.
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
* Bible, Exodus ix. 31
The trunk or stem of a tree.
* Tennyson
* 1908 ,
(Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, for giving air or light.
(Scotland) A small closet.
* Sir Walter Scott
Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
(obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
As nouns the difference between boll and bole
is that boll is the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant while bole is the trunk or stem of a tree.As a verb boll
is to form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.boll
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking.
Derived terms
* boll weevil * throat-bollVerb
(en verb)- The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled .
bole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bolr, akin to Danish bul and German .Noun
(en noun)- Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean.
- A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.
- Open the bole wi' speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin.
Etymology 2
(etyl) : compare (etyl) bol.Noun
(en noun)- (Coleridge)